With the June Amateur Free Agent Draft
scheduled to kick off this evening, it's likely that there will be a
record number of former Aflac All-Americans selected in the first
round.

Of Perfect Game's top 50 prospects
eligible for this year's draft, 14 of them played on last year's
squad, and 21 of the top 100. In addition, seven more players out of
the top 30 prospects overall have played in previous years, spending
the last two to three years at the college or junior college level.

To those that follow prospects the
names are quite familiar. Gerrit Cole, Dylan Bundy, Matt Purke,
Francisco Lindor, Sonny Gray, Archie Bradley, Taylor Jungmann, Blake
Swihart, Alex Meyer, Daniel Norris, Brian Goodwin and Javier Baez are
all alums of the All-American Classic. They represent three
different years of the event, 2007, 2008 and 2010, with all of them
expected to be selected in the first round of the draft.